Newton Man Ordered to Pay $700K for Medicaid Kickback Scheme
The man pleaded guilty earlier this year to the medicaid kickback charges.
A Newton man has been ordered to pay $700,000 in fines and restitution for a Medicaid kickback scheme where he allegedly paid a regional transit authority to divert transportation services to one of his transportation businesses. Alexander Shrayber, 57, of Newton, also received a suspended sentence of two and a half years in the House of Correction, according to a press release issued by the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley. Shrayber pleaded guilty in June to two counts of Medicaid kickbacks, and four counts of corrupt gifts, offers or promises to influence officials. According to the press release, Judge James R. Lemire sentenced Shrayber to two and a half years in the House of Correction, suspended for five years, with five …
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